Definition of Hopeful

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Definition of Hopeful
	Hopeful Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. Related Definitions: Affording, Agreeable, As, Excite, Expectant, Expectation, Full, Good, Having, Hope, Hopeful, Inclined, Of, Or, Promise, Prospect, Qualities, Success, To, Which, Youth

Hopeful Quotations

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Joe Biden

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.
Lynette Fromme

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Hopeful Translations

hopeful in German is hoffnungsvoll
hopeful in Italian is speranzoso
hopeful in Norwegian is forventningsfull
hopeful in Spanish is esperanzado
hopeful in Swedish is hoppfull

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